KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Kyle Busch pulled away from Kevin Harvick after a late wreck collected several of the leaders Saturday night before finally winning a NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Kansas Speedway after years of misfortunes.

Busch won the Go Bowling 400 for his third victory of the season, and now only needs to win at Charlotte and Pocono to knock off every track in the series. He had twice crashed out of the Chase race at Kansas, and he failed to finish four times on the vexing 11/2-mile tri-oval.

All of which made his bow along the front straightaway feel so much better.

“There's been a lot of rough days at Kansas,” he said, “that's for sure.”

Harvick was second after making major changes to his car after a poor qualifying effort. Kurt Busch was third, Matt Kenseth finished fourth and Ryan Blaney was fifth.

“You know, it's our best finish of the year. That's the bright side,” said Kenseth, who was alongside Kyle Busch on the final restart with 19 laps to go.

Martin Truex Jr. won his first pole in two years and looked like he'd be the one to finally get the victory that has eluded him at Kansas, drawing away for big leads on every restart.

He still had a comfortable lead entering the final round of scheduled stops with 54 laps to go, but Truex radioed to his team that he had a loose wheel after leaving his stall.

He had to come down pit road again and dropped off the lead lap.